Question

If you were suddenly placed at an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the earth, would you expect your stomach to expand or contract? explain why.

Answer 1

Since there is lower pressure up there and the pressure in your stomach would still be the same as on the surface (higher), your stomach would expand.  When balloons float up into the atmosphere they expand until they burst.

Answer 2

Stomach will be  expand.

Explanation:

Since, As altitude increases, the amount of gas molecules in the air decreases the air becomes less dense than air nearer to earth surface.

So, at an altitude of 100km , pressure inside the stomach will same as on earth but pressure outside the stomach will be less.

Therefore, Stomach will expand.

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